>The greatest arcade game in history was never released on consoles>would have cleared one million sales with easeWTF was the issue exactly.
>>12833972Nobody had six controllers.
>>12833972They actually had this thing as the centerpiece in my small town arcade. I wasn't any good at it but I have a clear memory of going up to the sticks as a kid and having some older kids joining in or observing. The only thing I seem to remember is that the fat buttrball guy Juggernaut or whatever was a fat tub of goo and hard to deal with. Those side control stations look horrible desu
Ever notice they no black people in tha x-man. why the racism?
>>12833972>never released on consolesIt had a release on the Xbox 360/PS3 along with The Simpsons arcade game. They've been delisted now but I still have them on an old 360 console
>>12833986The x-gene only occurs in homosapians.
>>12833987A well timed 90s release on the SNES would have made this shit the best selling videogame of all TIME
>>12833992You think the snes could of handled this?Holy fucking mega cope.This piece of shit console almost bricked itself with just Final Fight trying to load more than 4 characters on screen at once
>>12833972>>The greatest arcade game in history was never released on consolesI know that feel...
>>12833992>>12834010Even the Playstation or Saturn would have struggled to run an arcade perfect port of this game. It has a lot happening onscreen at once
>>12834023It was a job for the Jaguar.
>>12834030this desu
>>12833992The designs were anachronistic to the popular comics of the early 90s, the Clairmont/Byrne designs were at odds with the newer Jim Lee designs from the incredibly popular books of the time. The X-men games that did come out on the snes used those. It probably just wouldn't have run on the snes anyway, and if it did it'd be missing the 6 player gimmick.
>>12834010Then it explain how it did Turtles in Time which is no more advanced, with ease
>>12833974Rich kids did
>>12833972I believe there was plans to port it to the Saturn I think? Or maybe 32x? But it never happened. Another amazing arcade game that never released on consoles is the Aliens VS Predator game with Dutch (Arnie) from Predator but with a giant robot arm. It was planned for 32x but scraped. That could've been a killer app for it.And like the X-Men game getting a home release later on 360 for a limited time until being delisted, AvP got an even more limited one... It only ever released on some home arcade stick as a built in game.
>>12834054What game on the PSX even supported more than 4?
>>12833986storm is a negress and right there on the cabinet multiple times
>>12833972>>The greatest arcade game in historythats still Street Fightan 2 AFAIK
>>12835259CTR
>>12835267No she wasn't, she was very tan from all the lightening flashes and repeated burnings. Ever seen older white women that spent a lot of time in the desert?
>>12834030>>12834023a Pentium 2 MMX should have had the processing power to do all that. at least on lower-res, with optimised code.
>>12835201https://youtu.be/rbbB7ZYynMs?is=7hf4xqR8yhwbihp6There's a fan made port to the Saturn that is apparently progressing pretty well. Hopefully it gets finished at some point Wasn't there a Spider-Man arcade game as well that never got ported to anything?
>>12835295Yep as far as I know that old Spider-Man beat em up with like Hawkeye and Captain America as the other playable characters never got any home release afaik. I was just talking about that game with a friend the other day, he is current playing through it on MAME
>>12835343I remember the only way I got to the end of Spiderman was when a friend rented out an arcade for his birthday and I spent the whole time playing it.For Captain America I remember being at the mall and some spanish guy stuck a switchblade into the coin slot and gave all the kids a shit load of quarters to beat it with. Good times...
>>12833986Storm playable character and sexy as fuck
>>12833986Bishop was pretty cool,I remember him being a prominent character in the 90's Xmen comics
>>12834050Only 2 players at a time
>>12834050It just werks
the game is not that good, it was just really fun in arcades (90s friendslop)mutant apocalypse was a far better game
>>12835349Kek based Switchblade Spic. Yeah I've only ever played the Spider-Man game on MAME giving myself endless credits so I didn't notice the difficulty. We had the X-Men arcade game at my local skating rink as a kid though that was fucking awesome. .. it was the smaller version though, I don't think it was the full 6 player. 4 player maybe? Played it every weekend when I was a kid, we never best it though. Got through maybe 3 stages.
>>12835363yeah whatever happened to this character? no one gives a shit about bishop anymore
>>12833972What do you mean? It's on my Wii right now.
So I have a weird story about this. It's going to be long and rambly but I promise it's leading to something. As the other anon said we also had his at my local skating rink. Ok so I'm like 11 or 12... There is this older kid in town (it's like 2000 people, small Midwest town) he's like 15 or 16.... His name was Steven Sweeney and he was known in town as kind of a trouble maker... Well one day, he and his 19 year old cousin saw a 8 year old girl named Felicia Holt, on her bike in town in the same neighborhood as Steven. They started throwing rocks at her for some reason and I guess she threw one back. They dragged her into a ditch and strangled her to death. They then took her pants off and shoved leaves in her. This happens in broad daylight btw. That evening I went to the skating rink as I always did on Friday nights. So kids were talking about what happened "Someone killed a little girl" etc. So I am playing X-Men by myself. I had a stud ear ring, I had just gotten it and this was right before it was hip for guys to have them, at least where I live. I got a lot of shit for it and actually ended up taking it out later and letting it grow back... Anyway I'm playing X-Men by myself and all of a sudden some dude grabs my shoulder and leans in to my ear and says "NICE EAR RING YOU TWO EYED FAGGOT" It was Steven and his cousin. To this day I don't understand the two eyed part. About an hour later cops show up to the skating rink and arrest both of them and everyone knew "Oh shit it was them"So yeah I was playing this game and got grabbed and insulted by a child murderer. Steven only got a few years because he was a juvenile. His cousin got more. Steven is out now and even lives in the area again. You can Google these names and I'm sure you're find something about the case.
>>12835259Sports games
>>12835850Damn dude that's fucked up.. and yeah calling you two eyed is retarded, everyone has two eyes. People call people with glasses four eyes. Fucked up story tho bro.
>>12833972Such a fun fucking game, it was an absolute spectacle back in the day.
>>12835850Never thought I'd run into you of all people on here. I'm coming for you.
>>12835850Nice bait you got me googling these random people like a dumbass.
>>12833983the fat buttrball guy Juggernaut or whatever was a fat tub of goo and hard to deal withNOTHING MOVES THE BLOBNOTHI-NOTHING MOVES-NOTHING MOVES THE BLOB
>>12834050>Then it explain how it did Turtles in Time which is no more advanced, with easeArcade could have 4 turtles and 10 foot solders on screen at once, SNES could have 2 turtles and 4 foot soldiers on screen at once. The character sprites in X-Man are bigger than the ones in Turtles in Time. >>12835295>Wasn't there a Spider-Man arcade game as well that never got ported to anything?Yeah, it was on the same Sega hardware as Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder too. A ton of great arcade beat em ups never got ported because they'd fry 4th gen consoles and the genre was not popular enough for 5th gen. Off the top of my head.X-MenPretty Soldier Sailor MoonNight SlashersNinja Baseball BatmanGolden Axe Revenge of Death AdderAvPBattle CurcuitArmored WarriorsDungeon MagicMetamorphic ForceViolent StormIt would be nice if these games got ports to PS1 or Saturn. Unfortunately Shumps and Vs Fighting Games got 90% of the love. Even great Run and Guns like Mystical Warrior and Geostorm got passed over.
>>12833972>>12836176>it was an absolute spectacle back in the day.You could hear this no matter where you were in the arcade.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqZ45B9M0Y
>>12836443I googled it too, apparently his cousin was also a minor and since juvenile records are sealed there is nothing online about it... Happened in like , 97-98 in Doniphan, MO. I assure you it happened, it was a huge shock for the community because shit like that doesn't happen here or not very often and it was so senseless. I will never forget Steven doing that (his name is spelled Swiney apparently and if you Google the info you can find arrests for more recent stuff. He's 44 I am 40, like I said he was a few years older. It was just out of no where I had never talked to the guy and he did it really loud everyone heard it was very embarrassing but also the two eyed part was baffling. It was actually the first of people basically calling me a fag for having an ear ring like I said and then like a year later fucking everyone had them. Anyway yes it happened and I felt so sorry for her mother, she was so nice super Christian and worked for the school. She had Felicia late in life she was really old and had a daughter that had just graduated high school named Candice who was super fucking hot.
>>12833992I agree, Anon. Half-Life on the N64 would have been a massive success too, and GTA IV on the PS2 might have been as well. Hell yeah.
>>12836187Fuck off Steven
The vibe changed so much with that post, Anon. Holy fuck.
>>12835850Grim
>>12835850Please consider unlearning your habit of starting sentences with "so".The random "two eyed" insult reminds me of a time when I was sitting on a bench in the hallway in my high school, near the end of my last day of school before graduation, and this one dude in my grade who I knew the name of but had never once interacted with in any way emerged from the crowd of passing students, got right in my face, and yelled "You come from SHIT planet!!" before melting back into the crowd, never to be heard of (by me) again.
>>12833983I'm pretty sure there was a deluxe model that wasn't as cramped. Fun game. Last I played it was in an Indiana Dairy Queen in 2000. Seems like every arcade had X-Men back in the day.
>>12833972Brown and mustard Wolverine. Capped Cyclops. Freakin' Dazzler. Talk about a lineup.>The character designs and voice lines draw inspiration from the 1989 animated pilot X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men.You learn something new every day.
>>12835850
>>12833972It was kind of a crummy beatemup, it just had nice sprite resolution and six players. The Simpsons arcade was a similar case.
>>12833986they fight against a different kind of racism.
>>12834010there were 4 player and 2 player versions
>>12833972this game sucks. any xmen game that punishes you for using mutant powers is dogshit
>>12836632it's a meme at MAGfest for a reason
>>12834054My brother had one of these and we weren't even rich.
>>12837238>The random "two eyed" insult reminds me of...It reminds me of a Quake 2 machinima about a detective called Superfly Johnson and his nemesis(?) "Two Legged Fag"I don't know if you can even find any of them anywhere anymore.
>>12839803He just blew that dinosaurs legs off. What the fuck, it's a dinosaur.>>12840078no legged fagasaurus
>>12833972I have searched for this on emulation sites only to realize it doesn’t exist. This and the simpsons game were fucking awesome
>>12840078I might be misremembering the name. It was "superfly" something, but "superfly johnson" is a companion character in Daikatana. So unless they named him after a what-would-be-now controversial machinima, it's probably something different.The little guy was named two legged fag though. There were like 3 of these in a series.
>>12840087okay, just to complete everything, it's this:https://archive.org/details/rick-jones-iiHis name is Rick Jones. Not Johnson. I don't remember where I got Superfly from, i didn't watch all this just right now.Two legged fag.
>>12833972When it released on 360 people would just use the infinite specials cheat and nearly effortless spam their way through the game.Otherwise special attacks consume your HP which is lame af for an x-men game.
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>>12834039Good observation, I wonder why. Claremont sendup since he was leaving the books soon at the time? Anyway. Dazzler! I like this outfit better than the one in the game but needs a remaster/modern port with costume options for all. Or at least an add-on for the latest retro-style marvel game...Cosmic Invasion or whatver
>>12840359The game was based on a pilot for an X-Men cartoon that was nearly greenlit but the deal fell through. Konami was already deep into making the game so they just said "fuck it" and finished it anyway.
>>12840457Oh hang on, there was one episode of an X-Men cartoon released like 1990 or something, before the original series on Fox '97 is based on. I had a copy like 1991. Yes, 'Pryde Of The X-Men'. Totally forgot about this, thanks for reminding
>>12834023>>12833972>>12833987Ehem.....https://youtu.be/8-bif62t7Y8?si=sk8NswSMrhb8qGdf
>>12835435Said no real human
>>12840594Impressive! A lone coder, still making games for the Saturn some thought could not be done...really cool. There are other similar projects of course, but this is unique because I've basically never heard of Saturn homebrew. Supposedly the hardware was difficult to program for, yeah? 3D games anyway. Cheers to that guy/gal/whoever...
>>12842341Holy shit, Hellslave looks pretty fucking sickhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BDZZVw-vJw
>>12842345>>12842341>>12840594why not port the simpsons game? or the Asterix one?
>>12834010>almost bricked itself with just Final Fight trying to load more than 4 characters on screen at onceSkill issue.
>>12840457>>12840490>>>12837259
>>12843353Yeah and of course the in-game sprites are basically copy/pastes of the animation. And that's a good thing...
>>12835267>storm is a negress common misconceptionBishop is a nig though
>>12834039This game was based on the designs for the "Pryde Of The X Men" pilot from 1989.
>>12840490the best part of this show is when magneto literally kicks lockheed like hes kicking a puppy
>>12844365Yeah-huh, and Jim Lee's style was used in the absurdly popular relaunch in 1991, which also inspired the actually-picked-up cartoon and its toy line. Your point?>>12833986StormFrenzyBishopSynchProdigyGentleManifoldSunspotThe last two are aboriginal and black brazillian, so maybe they don't count idk
>>12835259twisted metal 4
>>12834010launch game with LoROM, it could've probably done a decent port but not in 1992
Righto
>>12846782The snes could barely run final fight 3. You could see it struggle loading more than 5 characters. It's why the backgrounds were so shit because they needed the resources to have a 2nd player.There's been rumors for years this was going to be a 32x release along with other games like tmnt tit/asterix and others as sega of America had apparently talked to these companies about home ports. All that stopped the moment sega japan came out and said the Saturn is here. Don't waste any time or energy on the 32x
>>12846782>just say lorom and anything just worksnot how it works at all but i know, we all know, you know nothing about the snes>>12849876>The snes could barely run final fight 3.could barely run street fighter 2. it was slow as fuck.
>>12849876Should have just put them on the Saturn and made them arcade perfect instead of having making compromises and using overpriced 32X cartridges. 5th gen could have used a few more 2D beat em ups.
>>12851508>Should have just put them on the Saturnsaturn would need to ship with ram expansion carts
>>12835276CTR only supported 4 players maximum. No system link.
>>12833972>mfw beat boss to unlock new "mutant" power>doesn't do anything newhuh?
>>12854295>saturn would need to ship with ram expansion cartsTurtles in Time, Astrix, Final Fight 3? No. RAM expansion carts would be needed for something like AvP tier and even o a game like that the base model Saturn could probably do an okay job like with DnD Shadow over Mystara.
>>12834013Yeah...
>>12833972It did though, Sunset Riders was released on the Snes and is great
>>12851495World Warrior? Yeah it was NOT a good port, but it was that or nothing, plus it felt VERY different to play and the CPU was broken.
>>12833972One of my earliest memories is going to the arcade with my parents and watching them play that exact model.
>>12843480I literally remember an X-men episode where she goes back home and it's some mudhut village in Africa
